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With Over-Time dragging their feet and the lack of a past Rider cameo to hold my interest I've started falling behind on the show. I just finished the Quiz arc, thought, and I thought it was... moderately okay, I guess?

The stuff with Quiz and his dad was fine. My only real issue is that the Quiz suit feels like it was tossed together over a weekend, especially compared to the previous fake tribute episode Rider. It was kind of neat to see a Kamen Rider who's the son of a scientist, though, given how scientists' children were the go-to kidnapping victim of every Showa era villain organization. I'm sure that wasn't the idea, but the connection amused me.

My big problem with this story is that, after just a few episodes, I already despise White Woz. The last goddamn thing this show needed is another time traveler with their own agenda and White Woz manages to take all of OG Woz's more annoying traits and dial them up to 11 while simultaneously losing any of the actor's charisma in the process. On top of that, his stupid time book is giving the writer's an excuse to just lazily skip over whole plot points instead of having to try to string together a more developed story (and don't get me started on bullshit like "and then the Time Jacker's power doesn't work.") Worst of all, he's enabling all of Geiz's worst character traits. I've said before that I find Geiz to be the show's weak link and bringing in a character that forces even more half-assed conflict between him and Sougo is not helping anything.

Thank goodness there's a real tribute episode coming up this week because those are really the only part of this series that I consistently look forward to.